Tapestry's goal is to connect less techy seniors with their own
family members. While doing research for that project, founder
and CEO Andrew Dowling found that an enormous problem older
adults were experiencing across the board was finding
companions their own age, Vice reports.

"Believe it or not, for seniors loneliness is a bigger killer
than smoking or obesity," Dowling told Vice.

While Tapestry couldn't exactly fix this problem, Dowling and his
team took to building a product that could. Stitch was born, and is now
privately beta testing in the Bay Area with plans for official
release in the next few months.

Realistically, the similarities between Stitch and Tinder
are few. Both work to avoid unsolicited contact and show you
matches in your area, but that's about all. Everything else about
Stitch is meant to skew toward things older adults prefer and
millennials don't, like talking on the phone, Vice
reports.

According to the Stitch website, "Stitch doesn't let you filter
out potential matches based on superficial information like their
eye color," which could possibly be the least Tinder-like
statement possible, proving that the two are quite different
after all.